Does Doppler echography have a diagnostic role in patency assessment of internal thoracic artery grafts?

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 692-700

  Jones, Catherine M ^a   Athanasiou, Thanos ^a,b   Tekkis, Paris P ^a   Malinovski, Vitali ^a   Purkayastha, Sanjay ^a   Haq, Ahmed ^a   Kokotsakis, John ^a   Darzi, Ara ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Cardiothoracic Surgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass; Doppler echocardiography; Internal thoracic artery; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTERY GRAFT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENOSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 27544506526     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcts.2005.07.013     Document Type: Review

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